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Saturday, August 14, 2010

A Bountiful Harvest

I'm sorry to disappear again after I said I was going to try to be better about blogging. But I had a good reason. The Papa is on his way out of this earthly world. His leukemia has reared it's ugly head. Between work and going to the hospital, I'm spent.

Today I tended to domestic chores and my sadly neglected garden. Boy, you can't let that thing get out of control! This is what I harvested this morning:

My tomatoes are going nutso. I am growing four varieties. The small cherry tomatoes are called sweet 100's and they are like eating candy! The larger cherries didn't have a tag on them to tell me the variety but they are really good too. I picked two small hot peppers (ya baby, there is salsa in my future), a green pepper and a zucchini. We had the zucchini with ranch dip for dinner. The larger tomatoes made an appearance in my lunch.

There is absolutely nothing better than a BLT with tomatoes fresh from the garden. I can hardly wait till I can grow lettuce again. It is still fairly hot here so I'll probably wait a week or two to plant the lettuce and spinach seeds. I want to totally revamp the garden (the zucchini and tomato plants have totally taken over). My basil is going gangbusters too so I'll probably make some pesto tomorrow. Yummo!

1 comment:

YUM!!! We've had BLT's a couple of times the past few weeks. You just can't help it with gorgeous just picked tomatoes. I've also made pesto a few times this month. Doesn't it feel so good to bring in your own food from the garden??